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Sarah May

@sarahmay1.bsky.social
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Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 1h
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Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
More books sent today.. we aren't going to reprint this one. Last chance to have a copy of the first ever Willerby book.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12h
“I’m proud to announce our Youth Jobs Guarantee. Meaningful work for young people who need it. A proper job, a proper wage, proper rights at work.” Mothin Ali on our Youth Jobs Guarantee announcement at Green Party Conference.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 13h
#ShareGoodNewsToo
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Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Help save "Room" (Canada's oldest feminist lit magazine), especially if you'd like to see new fiction from me in their next issue. But mostly do it because they rock, and they're important: roommagazine.com/whats-new/an...
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Save Room Magazine: A Fundraiser - ROOM Magazine
SAVE ROOM MAGAZINE: A FUNDRAISER Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, running since 1975. For over 50 years, our small nonprofit has carved out a space in Canadian literary publishing w...
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Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week, we welcomed 200 Bluecoat Primary School children to our archaeology education programme. It is important for kids to see their heritage and learn about the past, with hands-on active learning! Many of them said they now want to be archaeologists when they grow up!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 18h
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13h
Who could have foreseen that the Conservatives' 88 foot reworking of the Bayeux Tapestry would end up looking like a far right promotional ad, complete with "plague carrying asylum seekers"? Okay, sorry, apart from anyone with a brain cell.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 15h
Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h
💚 a guaranteed job for every 18-24 year old 💚 a plan to bring failing water companies into public ownership by Christmas 💚 standing up for an inclusive and welcoming Britain So proud of our Deputy Leaders @rachelmillward.bsky.social @mothinali.bsky.social
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Ally Lester @cogenthippo.bsky.social · 15h
Look! Some good news!
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NPR @npr.org · 17h
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it. n.pr/4y2SrM3
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Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 15h
I am not very worried about about the Tory Tapestry’s misuse of “doth”. What worries me much more is this sequence of panels which seems to show a small boat full of brown-skinned people followed by a plague of rats running riot and then a lot of dead white people labelled tax payers.
Detail from Conservative Party mock Bayeux Tapestry showing 1. A boat full of brown skinned people. 2. Enormous rats chasing cats. 3. White-skinned “tax payers” dead in the streets.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h
Amazing day! Thanks everyone who came out to volunteer. In Parliament I'll be pushing for Rent controls, water nationalisation, tackling the climate crisis and standing up for the people of Holborn & St Pancras. And the final picture wasn't on my bingo card but sure!
Zack and Ross with lots of members and volunteersLorna, Zack and Richie with a vote green signZack with a resident on the streetZack with lots of people in lederhosen outsixe the rose and crown
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 18h
Right, I keep seeing this on here because it’s so deliciously memeable but… who says? Well, the ‘research’ that came up with this number was commissioned by Compare The Market. Yes, it’s slander of British seagulls by foreign meerkats.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23h
I see Burnham's talk about "hope" and helping people with the rising cost of living has lasted less than a week in reality. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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London Labour council warns it may raise council tax by 150%
Hammersmith and Fulham says it faces ‘biggest financial challenge in living memory’ as government cuts bite
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
On principle of benefits of going to Europe "I would like it to be easier for UK citizens to work in another European country, or for my children to do so, and would be willing for EU citizens to have the same access to the UK" Support 53% (strongly support 22) Oppose 12% (strongly oppose 5)
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Still thinking about this. It’s 4th time in the past decade where a well-off white man I’ve made (sort of) made friends with gets comfortable enough with me to reveal that they hate the idea that people like them are somehow “privileged” and don‘t understand all the “fuss” about racism, sexism, etc
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 03/10/2026
This October, Diwali on the Square returns to light up the heart of London. Join Londoners from every community for a free celebration of light, hope and togetherness. 📅 Sunday 25 October 🕐 1–7pm Everyone is welcome.
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meribel123.bsky.social @meribel123.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is entirely beyond belief how they are platforming him. Time for another letter of complaint. The hard right turn of the BBC towards fascism means I no longer watch BBC News but given its influence particularly on seniors it is very concerning. It is time for another letter to the BBC/OFCOM
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Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Greens have set the political agenda this year, and we'll continue to push Labour to cut people's bills and protect our planet. Here's me speaking to the News Agents about the Green Party's influence on Labour over the past year.
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Fiona Campbell-Howes @fortrenn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Looking forward to welcoming people to our @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference this afternoon! A fantastic line-up of experts discussing the 'Pictishness' of Pictish art. We'll also pay tribute to David Henry, editor of the Pinkfoot Press, who very sadly died this week.
Agenda slide for Day 1 of the Pictish Arts Society conference 2026, on the theme of the Pictishness of Pictish Art. The conference runs from 1.40 to 5.30 and we have four 40-minute papers with 10 minutes Q&A each. The speakers and titles are: Professor Jane Geddes, Insular Art and its Pictish Components; Dr Martin Goldberg, The Changing Artistry of the Pictish Symbols Over Time; Professor Gordon Noble, Stone and the Gods: Religious Cognition and Stone Carving in Pictland; and Andy Heald, The Pictishness of Pictish Metalwork? The day is dedicated to the late David Henry of the Pinkfoot Press, who published a new edition of John Romilly Anderson and Joseph Anderson's foundational 1903 work The Early Christian Monuments of Scotland, as well as many other titles of key importance to Pictish studies.
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histhapp.bsky.social @histhapp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
South Korean soldiers searching for landmines uncovered something very different: Korea’s oldest surviving gunpowder weapon. gizmodo.com/south-korean... #history #historynews #asianhistory
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South Korean Troops Thought They Found a Landmine. It Was a 600-Year-Old Gun
The exact date of the firearm is up for debate, but the discovery sets back the history of guns in Korea by 100 years.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
I implore all cis people to read this.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is not a dying planet. This is a planet being killed. There is a difference. And there are killers. #ClimateJustice
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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For weekend readers, my last offering on the 'going rogue' metaphor as a 'hegemonic' metaphor that has provoked quite a few counter-metaphors and debunking efforsts #AI #metaphor #linguistics #AIMetaphorObservatory makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Resisting rogue metaphors
Readers of this blog will know that from antiquity onwards, philosophers, rhetoricians and cognitive scientists have examined the use and abuse of metaphors. More recently, they have also begun to …
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It's been 7 months since I gave evidence at the UKGov select committee hearing, on the policy changes at UKRI which have had a catastrophic impact on funding for UK astronomy and particle physics. When asked if we thought we were the "canary in the coal mine", we said yes..... we weren't wrong. 🧪🔭⚛️
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Despite all the campaigns privatised water companies are still pumping sewage into British rivers. Enjoy falling off your paddleboard and getting a mouthful of bacteria. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s shocking really’: Devon community tracks River Dart sewage spills
Citizen environmentalists create online platform that flags spills in real time and highlights repeatedly polluted spots
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 02/10/2026
#OtD 2 Oct 1766 the Nottingham Great Cheese Riot began. Angry at the excessive price of cheese, a mob formed who seized it and began wheeling or carrying the cheeses away, bowling over the mayor with a cheese. The army put down rioting 2 days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9225...
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Morgan L. Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
P. Djèlí Clark’s short story, “The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington” I still think about it today firesidefiction.com/the-secret-l...
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The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington
“By Cash pd Negroes for 9 Teeth on Acct of Dr. Lemoire” –Lund Washington, Mount Vernon plantation, Account Book dated 1784.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE Reform MP Sarah Pochin asked a question about the impact second homes have on rural areas, just 48 hours before buying a £800k second home in Wales… willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2 October 1919 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Vogel, was born in Amsterdam. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 17 July 1942 in a transport of 2,000 Jews deported from #Westerbork. No. 48420 He perished in the camp on 18 August 1942. --- Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en
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Samantha Katz Seal @samanthalkseal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have a problem in British history if an article like this can be written/published without mentioning Edward’s expulsion of Jews from England in 1290 or the coin-clipping persecutions of the 1280s. Anglo-Jewish history IS English history. If your history books don’t reflect that, rewrite them.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ETAs the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Cambridge student newspaper Varsity is reporting that James Orr (or, as they call him, "Disgraced theology professor James Orr") hasn't been turning up to his own lectures.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It couldn't be more critical to get more Green voices in Parliament - and with only 6 days until the by-election in Holborn and St Pancras, we need as many Green activists as possible to join us in the campaign to get Zack Polanski elected! Sign up to an action day now! linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Europe’s record summer of May heatwaves, ruined harvests, and extreme heat stress affecting over half the continent is a stark wake-up call. Ignoring the accelerating climate crisis while crop yields collapse is sheer madness. Why delay bold climate action any longer? (1/2) 🤔 #FBPE
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May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future
EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My fellow eccentrics: There are so many shamelessly evil people in the world. Be shamelessly eccentric and spread joy. You want to dance down your street? Do it. You want to talk to yourself on the bus? Go ahead. You want to wear an outfit someone described as "quirky"? Why not? Be happy. Be you.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this whole thread. This is one of the things I’m most concerned about. Because we’ve already seen this kind of clumsy propaganda work very well, and quickly, via a number of other online vectors. And AI chatbots are readymade for this shit.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Migration Museum, London, is hiring a part-time (3 days per week) curator for a year to help build the vision of the new museum. £40k pro rata plus 5% matched pension contribution. Deadline for applications 18 October.
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We’re Hiring: Curator, Contemporary Art (Part-time)
The Migration Museum is seeking a Contemporary Art Curator to join their team on a part-time basis. Application deadline: 18 October 2026.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Alex Mace @alexmace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unemployment reached its highest ever level, 11.8%, in 1984.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 02/10/2026
Consider this your sign to go outside before it gets dark at 4pm again.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've pushed the government to end unaffordable rents every day I’ve been an MP, and before then. It's a national scandal that thousands of ordinary people are forced to limit themselves & their life chances just to keep up with sky-high rents. This would be a much-needed reset👇
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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Edinburgh has the largest net increase of households entering temporary accommodation for the first time, with 1,450 more entering than exiting. The city also has the highest average time spent in temporary accommodation, currently 517 days." #homeless #housing tfn.scot/opinion/behi...
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Behind the homelessness figures: long-term rough sleeping is still a challenge for Edinburgh - TFN
Karen Barr’s message to the Scottish Parliament
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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Incredibly proud of my youngest brother who exemplifies what people living with disabilities can accomplish with appropriate support. He’s been very lucky and I wish we could make sure all people got what they need to flourish. Here he is talking about his hobby as a DJ
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Shalim Ali: music and arts give us all a chance to express ourselves
Sharing music through being a DJ brings people together, allows me to enjoy myself and recharge, and gives me a break from the serious demands of work
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exciting job for #envhum postdocs! Project "Tolerating Urban Animals. Techno-moral perspectives on killing and caring for other species" (U Copenhagen) is looking for 2 postdocs to work on use of technologies for managing undomesticated/feral urban animals in 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴. employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...
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Two Postdoctoral positions in Ethnology at the Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen
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